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FIFTY- EIGHT  PAINTINGS 
BY  HOMER  D.  MARTIN 


described  by 
Dana  H.  Carroll 


New  York 
PRIVATELY  PRINTED 

MCMXIII 


Copyrigkt,  191 3,  hy 
Frederic  FaircKild  Sherman 


CONTENTS 


CONTENTS 


NO.                                           TITLE  PAGE 

1  Saranac  Lake   8 

2  Lake  George  from  Bolton      .     .     .     .     .  13 

3  The  Iron  Mine,  Port  Henry,  N,  Y. .         .  14 

4  On  Lake  Ontario   19 

5  The  Giant  of  tke  Valley   20 

6  An  Adirondack  Lake   25 

7  Winter  in  Normandy   26 

8  Across  the  Lake   26 

9  New  Hampshire  Landscape   31 

10  Long  Lake   31 

1 1  Salt  Meadows   32 

12  Autumn  on  the  Susquehanna    ....  32 

13  Ontario  Sand  Dunes   37 

14  Late  Autumn   38 

15  Early  Spring   38 

16  Raquette  Lake   43 

17  A  Glimpse  of  the  Sea   44 

18  Headwaters  of  the  Hudson   49 

19  Autumn  in  the  Adirondacks     ....  50 

20  Richmond  on  Thames   55 

21  Saranac  Lake   5b 

22  Windsor  Castle   61 

23  LAnse  St.  Etienne,  Saguenay   ....  62 

24  LAnse  aux  Basses  Pierres   62 

25  Blossoming  Trees   67 

26  On  the  Seine   68 

27  The  Dunes   73 

28  The  Moonht  Pond— Honfleur   ....  73 

29  Normandy  Landscape   74 


NO.                                            TITLE  PAGE 

30  The  Lighthouse  —  Honfleur   79 

31  Ruby  Strong  —  Normandy   7^ 

32  Sand  Dunes,  Lake  Ontario   80 

33  Low  Tide,  Honfleur   85 

34  Evening  on  the  Seine   86 

35  On  the  Seine   91 

36  On  the  Hudson   92 

37  A  Forest  Brook   97 

38  Coa^  Meadows,  St.  Sauveur     ....  98 

39  Landscape   98 

40  An  Adirondack  Lake — Lake  Sanford  .     .  103 

41  Lower  Ausable  Pond   104 

42  December  Morning  in  Normandy  .     .     .  109 

43  Low  Tide — Villerville     .     .     .     .     .  .110 

44  Lake  George   115 

45  Crepuscule  —  Montvilhers   116 

46  The  Sea  at  Villerville   121 

47  Golden  Sands   121 

48  The  Meadow  Brook   122 

49  The  Sun  Worshippers   127 

50  South  Side  of  Long  Island   128 

51  Criqueboeuf  Church   133 

52  Normandy  Farm   134 

53  On  the  Mississippi   139 

54  Newport  Neck   140 

55  A  Newport  Landscape   145 

56  A  Di^ant  View  of  Caen   146 

57  The  Brook   151 

58  Normandy  Trees  .     .     .     .    ..     .     .  .152 


FIFTY.  EIGHT  PAINTINGS 
BY  HOMER  MARTIN 


(I) 

SARANAC  LAKE 

Height,  52  inches;  width,  53  inches 

TKe  broad  and  placid  waters  of  the  lake  fill  the  fore= 
ground.  The  sK  ores,  low  beyond  tbe  di^ant  fartber 
end,  wbere  tbe  lake  is  narrow,  spread  out  on  eitber 
band  as  tbe  lake  widens,  and  vanisb  firom  tbe  picfture 
near  tbe  middle  di^ance.  Tbe  season  is  autumn  and 
tbe  trees  around  tbe  lake's  borders  are  a  ricb  brown, 
warming  toward  red.  On  tbe  rigbt  tbe  trees,  growing 
tbickly  in  tbeir  fore^,  rise  on  low  mounds,  and  tbe 
taller  ones  raise  tbeir  beads  above  tbe  fore^^mass  like 
towering  sentinels .  On  tbe  left,  dense  gro  wtbs  of  trees 
line  tbe  border  of  tbe  water,  a  few  tall  pines  being 
conspicuous  near  at  band.  Fartber  back  along  tbe  left, 
above  tbe  fore^  at  tbe  water's  edge,  tbe  lofty  moun^ 
tain  peaks  arise,  bere  brown,  yonder  paHng  to  a  dis? 
tant  bluisbsgreen.  But  above  all  is  tbe  wondrous  sky 
— one  of  tbe  fine^  ever  put  in  paint,  it  seems .  In  won^ 
derful  aerial  perspective  are  tbe  tumbling,  rolling, 
floating  masses — soHd,  yet  ligbt  as  tbeir  sub^ance 
suggests — glowing  in  sunset  reflections — wbite,  gray, 
creamy* yellow,  rose?kissed — again  taking  a  smoky 
bue — in  a  pale  blue  sky.  Tbe  ligbt  in  tbem  is  strong* 
e^  over  tbe  mountain  tops,  and  reflections  of  tbe  clouds 
and  woods  appear  in  tbe  rippKng  mirror  of  tbe  lake. 

Formerly  in  the  collection  of  the  late  Dr.  Fessenden  N.  Otis,  who  obtained  it 
from  the  artist. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin  (with  a  date  not  clearly  decipherable, 
but  in  the  '60's). 

PROPERTY  OF  THE  UNION  LEAGUE  CLUB,  NEW  YORK. 


(2) 


LAKE  GEORGE  FROM  BOLTON 

Height,  20  inches;  width,  30  inches 

A  spacious  landscape,  full  of  color  and  with  a  very- 
real  feeling  of  the  atmosphere  of  a  sunny  day  when 
the  clear  sky  is  liberally  besprinkled  with  light  clouds. 
The  narrow  foreground  shows  a  green,  grass^grown 
clearing,  with  occasional  spots  of  red  and  yellow,  and 
on  the  right  the  brown  trunks  of  some  dead  and  fallen 
trees.  Bordering  the  clearing  a  line  of  thick  woods  of 
rich  green  foliage  extends  across  the  pid:ure  on  an  in^ 
cline  sloping  toward  the  middle  di^ance,  where  roll* 
ing  fields  of  yellowishsgreen  verdure  and  rich  quality 
spread  out  in  the  late  afternoon  sunshine.  Beyond  the 
fields  is  seen  the  soft,  smooth  surface  of  the  beautiful 
Horicon,  overspreading  a  large  proportion  of  the 
ample  pidture,  and  reflecting  in  deHcate  tones  the  nues 
of  the  clear  blue  sky  and  its  creamysyellow  and 
slightly  mauve=tinted  clouds.  On  the  farther  shore 
the  mountains  rise  in  majestic  solidity. 

Previously  owned  by  J.  B.  Bristol,  the  artist,  who  acquired  it  from  the  late  Mr. 
Watrous  who  obtained  it  from  Martin.  Martin,  who  often  failed  to  sign  his  pictures, 
repeatedly  promised  Dr.  Coan  that  he  would  add  his  signature  to  this  canvas  in  good 
time.  At  last  Dr.  Coan  said  to  him:  "Well,  Homer,  when  are  you  going  to  sign  that 
picture  of  mine?"  Glancing  up  through  the  fumes  toward  that  elaborate  ceiling  of 
the  Century  Club  dining-room,  the  jovial  Homer  replied:  "When  those  curves  roll 
away." 

PROPERTY  OF  DR.  TITUS  MUNSON  COAN. 


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(3) 


THE  IRON  MINE,  PORT  HENRY,  N.  Y. 

Height,  30  inches;  width,  50  inches 

Across  tke  breadth  of  the  picture  in  the  foreground 
the  water  of  Lake  Champlain  sweeps  in  placid  con= 
tentment,  its  surface  Hned  with  the  gentlest  of  ripples 
and  become  a  chromatic  mirror  of  the  colorful  bank 
which  bounds  it  on  the  farther  side .  In  the  immediate 
foreground  at  the  left  is  a  group  of  boulders  of  the 
otherwise  unseen  hither  shore,  gray,  brown  and  ma= 
hoganyscolored,  green  with  moss  and  again  grayed 
and  whitened  by  scaly  incru^ations.  The  high  bank 
rising  abruptly  on  the  farther  side  of  the  water  mounts 
nearly  to  the  top  of  the  pidlure,  under  a  bright  blue 
sky  partly  veiled  by  light,  fleecy  clouds  of  a  fair  day 
of  summer.  Its  steep  side  which  contains  the  mine,  is 
a  fascinating  ^udy  of  color — gray  and  red  rocks  and 
brown  earth,  the  light  green  of  gathering  mosses,  the 
yellow  ru^  of  disintegrating  iron  in  the  great  labora? 
tory  of  the  earth  under  the  influence  of  wet  and 
weather.  Near  the  top,  and  low  toward  the  water  s 
edge  on  the  left,  trees  and  bushes  grow,  where  vegeta* 
tion  can  gain  a  foothold  on  the  ^eep  inclines,  and  at 
the  border  of  the  water  a  dead  tree,  leaning,  adds  its 
brown  shadow  to  the  many  coloring  the  limpid  ^ream. 
At  the  foot  of  the  mine  runway  is  a  small,  white,  frame 
house,  and  near  by  a  white  canal  boat  with  a  green 
band  lies  alongshore. 

There  is  a  story  that  this  picture  belonged  to  Boss  Tweed  who  owned  the  mine 
and  wished  a  portrait  of  it.  The  canvas  was  injured  by  fire  and  is  repaired  at  the 
edges. 

EVANS  COLLECTION,  NATIONAL  GALLERY  OF  ART,  WASHINGTON. 


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(4) 


ON  LAKE  ONTARIO 

Height,  12  inches;  width,  20  inches 

A  cKaradleri^ic  landscape  of  upper  New  York 
State  on  the  borders  of  the  great  lake.  A  portion  of 
the  va^  expanse  of  tKe  lake  occupies  the  left  of  the  pic* 
ture,  coming  up  to  a  low,  rough,  stony  foreground 
shore  which  is  outlying  from  a  high  bluff  or  bank  on 
the  right.  The  bank  is  ^eep  and  is  being  con^antly 
worn  away  by  weather,  as  a  tree  already  partly  un= 
dermined  attests,  as  it  leans  toward  the  water,  its 
roots  holding  persi^ently  to  a  precarious  footing  near 
the  turf  hne  at  the  top  of the  bluff.  The  bluff  is  thickly 
wooded,  a  tall  pine  conspicuous  among  its  bushier 
neighbors  where  an  opening  in  the  woods  permits  it 
to  be  the  more  readily  seen.  A  strong  light  falls  upon 
the  bank,  lightening  the  foliage  of  the  outer  trees 
while  the  depths  of  the  woods  recede  in  shadow. 
The  land  projedls  into  the  lake  in  a  bold  point  in  the 
middle  distance,  and  far  out  on  the  water  some  white 
sails  gli^en  in  the  sunlight.  There  is  a  gentle  breeze 
and  the  water  comes  up  to  the  foreground  shore  in 
low  ripples. 

Undated  but  probably  painted  in  the  late  sixties.  Originally  came  from  a  Mrs. 
Richardson  in  whose  house  the  picture  was  painted. 

PROPERTY  OF  H.  C.  HENRY,  ESQ. 


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(5) 


THE  GIANT  OF  THE  VALLEY 

Height,  12  inches;  width,  20  inches 

Across  fallen  trees  and  busK^tops  of  a  narrow  fore* 
ground  tke  spedlator  looks  to  a  calm,  still  lake,  its 
smootk  surface  a  silvery?wKite  in  tKe  central  part 
and  in  partial  shadow  about  the  edges,  bordered  by 
tall  pines.  On  tke  rigbt  is  the  bigk  mountain,  its  low? 
er  flanks  ricK  with  verdure,  its  top  rising  bare  and 
rugged,  with  steep  cliffs,  above  scattered,  low;lying 
masses  of  gray  vapor.  Beyond  tbe  mountain,  toward 
tKe  left,  the  land  goes  back  to  a  vague,  indefinite  diss 
tance  under  a  blue  sky  witK  tenuous  gray  and  browns 
isKswbite  clouds. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1865. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 


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AN  ADIRONDACK  LAKE 

Height,  I5V2  inches;  width,  24'/^  inches 

A  small  lake  of  meandering  skoreline  is  pidlured  in 
autumn  when  tke  mountain  fore^s  are  rich  in  mellow 
coloring.  Tke  narrow  foreground  skore  and  con  tig* 
uous  sides  are  a  marsky  green  and  greenisksyellow, 
mingled  witk  wkick  are  various  ligkter  and  darker 
notes  of  sundry  coarser  grasses,  weeds,  or  flowers  of 
tkeo  pen  spaces  or  a  wood.  Tke  lake,  occupying  tke 
middle  di^ance,  witk  tkese  meandering  arms  of  skore 
reacking  about  it,  kas  for  its  fartker  skore  a  fore^  kill; 
side,  now  rick  in  varied  kues  of  vermilion,  makog* 
anyskrown,  yellow,  and  deep  green, — tke  killtop 
sloping  from  a  kigk  korizon  on  tke  left  to  a  low  and 
di^ant  one  on  tke  rigkt,  wkere  beyond  tke  lake  some 
barn=like  i^rudlures  are  sugge^ed,  rising  above  tke 
woods.  Tke  sky  is  a  mass  of  gray;wkite  and  creamy* 
yellow  clouds,  spun  over  a  robin's^egg  blue,  and  its 
notes  witk  tkose  of  tke  ckromatic  woods  are  refledled 
in  tke  silvery  mirror  of  tke  lake. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left.  Homer  D.  Martin. 

From  W.  W.  Walker,  who  got  the  canvas  from  the  artist. 

COLLECTION  OF  MISS  L.  P.  BLISS. 


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(7) 


WINTER  IN  NORMANDY 

(WATER  COLOR) 

Height,  14  inches;  width,  10  inches 

Ju^  a  friendly,  sympatketic  rendering  of  a  moi^ 
morning — tke  grey  sky  wet  and  heavy,  yet  attractive. 
The  foreground  is  a  broad,  yellow,  sandy  road,  lying 
between  high,  green  banks,  beyond  which  one  feels 
the  broad  reaches  of  green  fields.  On  the  incKnes  of 
the  roadsides  a  tree  or  two,  and  bushes.  The  whole — 
a  green,  moi^,  atmospheric  landscape. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin. 
PROPERTY  OF  WILLIAM  C.  BROWNELL,  ESQ. 

(8) 

ACROSS  THE  LAKE  • 

Height,  201/2  inches;  width,  12^/2  inches 

The  spectator  is  in  a  scattered  wood  of  second 
growth,  of  green  grass  and  boulders  ^rewn  with 
yellow  and  brown  leaves  in  the  early  autumn,  and 
looks  out  over  a  pale  blue  lake  lying  below,  its  waters 
seen  through  the  leafage.  The  trees  are  for  the  mo^ 
part  ^iU  green,  some  showing  pink  and  yellow  leaves 
near  their  tops.  Beyond  the  lake  one  looks  to  green 
and  blue  upland  fields,  lying  in  sunshine,  and  over? 
topped  in  the  di^ance  by  a  line  of  blue  hills.  The  sky 
is  pale  blue  —  as  though  seen  through  a  di^ant  hare. 

COLLECTION  OF  MONTGOMERY  SCHUYLER,  ESQ. 


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NEW  HAMPSHIRE  LANDSCAPE 

Height,  14  inches;  width,  I2V2  inches 

Under  a  bright  sky  in  wkick  wKite,  cirrocumulus 
clouds  arc  plentiful,  tke  broad^topped  mountains  rise 
over  wooded  footbills  wbicK  tbemselves  mount  above 
a  foreground  field  tbat  is  under  cultivation.  Tbe  bigk? 
er  mountain  is  a  dark  brownisk?green,  wKile  beyond 
it  a  side  of  its  neighbor  appears  a  dark,  obscure  blue  in 
partial  shadow.  The  broken  valleys  or  ravines  along 
the  middlesdi^ance  slopes  are  green  and  brown  and 
red  in  the  foliage  of  the  thickly  ?gr  owing  trees.  In  the 
foreground  is  a  yellow  grainfleld  dotted  with  the  gold* 
en^brown,  garnered  sheaves.  To  the  right  a  green 
and  yellow  field  is  seen  on  a  lower  plane. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin.    Painted  in  the  late  sixties. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 

(10) 
LONG  LAKE 

Height,  7  inches;  width,  17  inches 

The  lake,  marked  by  successive  ripples  which 
gli^en  white  as  they  break,  extends  across  the  fore* 
ground  and  back  toward  the  di^ance,  where  it  is 
bounded  by  the  rolling  hills,  with  the  mountains 
beyond  them.  Its  waters,  light  in  the  foreground, 
deepen  farther  away,  while  the  di^ant  heights  are 
light  in  sunshine  and  the  thickly^growing  trees  lower 
down  at  the  borders  of  the  lake  are  partly  in  shadow. 
Pale  blue  sky,  with  white  clouds  touched  with  rose. 

COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 


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(11) 


SALT  MEADOWS 

Height,  I6V2  inches;  width,  22  inches 

The  broad  foreground  is  flat  meadow4and,  green 
witk  the  grasses  tkat  persi^  on  tke  sandy  reaches  by 
the  sea,  interspersed  with  brown,  yellow  and  red 
patches,  and  with  darker  notes  where  weeds  dot  the 
surface.  All  about  the  meadows  the  gray^white  sand 
is  seen  among^  the  herbage.  Beyond  the  turquoise 
sea  Wretches  to  a  low  horizon,  the  shore^line  marked 
by  the  crests  of  a  low  surf.  The  clouded  sky  is  pinkish; 
white  in  the  center,  deepening  to  gray  and  greenish* 
brown,  with  sugge^ions  of  blue  beyond. 

A  Normandy  sketch  of  the  middle  eighties. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 

(12) 

AUTUMN  ON  THE  SUSQ^UEHANNA 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  25  inches 

The  winding  river,  silverysblue  and  white,  mean? 
ders  about  an  autumn  landscape,  rich  in  mellow 
browns  and  showing  a  few  glowing  reds.  The  fore? 
ground  of  open  fore^  is  in  shadow.  From  among^ 
the  hills  the  river  emerges,  a  narrow  white  ^reak 
coursing  about  the  foot  of  the  slopes,  bending  toward 
the  left  as  it  approaches,  its  surfacemote  here  blue  as 
it  divides  and  encompasses  a  small  island.  The  sky  is 
a  faint,  greenishsblue,  with  pale  yellow  notes  among 
the  clouds. 

Signed  at  the  right  and  dated,  1879. 
William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1900. 

COLLECTION  OF  DR.  ALEXANDER  C.  HUMPHREYS. 


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(13) 


ONTARIO  SAND  DUNES 

Height,  26  inches;  width,  40  inches 

Over  tkc  whole  foreground  spread  the  sandy?gray 
dunes,  of  a  lovely  colors  quality,  soft,  velvety  surface, 
and  patched  here  and  there  by  bunches  of  the  coarse, 
wiry,  graysgreen  grass  of  the  wild  approaches  to  the 
great  lake.  At  the  right  of  the  foreground,  where  the 
shore  is  low  and  the  grass  thicker,  the  land  is  in  a 
transparent  cloud^shadow,  while  toward  the  left  the 
rising  dunes  are  in  the  light.  Beyond  these,  in  the 
middle  di^ance  and  the  di^ance  on  the  left,  are  still 
more  elevated  dunes,  rising  to  the  dignity  of  hills,  and 
presenting  further  evidences  of  the  green  growths  of 
an  otherwise  all  but  barren  region.  FiUing  the  middle 
di^ance  on  the  right,  the  blue  lake,  which  is  dark  in 
the  di^ance,  comes  up  on  the  hither  side  of  the  tall, 
di^ant  dunesridge  of  the  left,  laps  the  bases  of  the 
sandsmounds  there,  and  spreads  in  low  wavelets  and 
ripples  along  the  flat  lowland  shore  of  the  right  fore? 
ground.  Here  the  white  lines  of  the  miniature  combers 
are  touched  with  red  by  reflections  from  fiery  strata 
of  clouds  in  a  glowing  sunset  sky.  Aloft,  great  banks 
of  smoky^gray  clouds,  while  higher  above  these  yet, 
other  and  lesser,  gray  cloud^patches  share  in  the  sun? 
set  red. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left.  Homer  Martin.    Dated,  1887. 
Acquired  from  Mrs.  Martin. 

Probably  the  second  picture  of  this  theme,  other  versions  of  which  are  in  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  and  the  collection  of  Mr.  Schuyler. 

COLLECTION  OF  W.  A.  PUTNAM,  ESQ. 


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.  (14) 
LATE  AUTUMN 

Height,  91/2  inches;  width,  inches 

One  looks  across  a  narrow  brook  in  tke  low  fore= 
ground  to  the  ^eep  incline  of  the  farther  side  of  tke 
ravine  tkrougk  wkick  it  runs.  Tkis  slope  is  freely 
grown  witk  slender  trees  wkick  rise  above  tkeir 
green  and  brown  foUage  and  brown  and  gray  trunks 
screening  tke  sky  above  tke  top  of  tke  ravine  ridge. 
Tke  ground  from  wkick  tkey  grow  is  green  witk 
grass  and  brown  witk  fallen  leaves,  and  tke  air  of 
autumn  is  pervasive  and  real  over  all. 

Painted  on  a  panel.    A  pendant  to  "Early  Spring,"  in  the  same  ownership. 
This  and  the  companion  piece  were  painted  about  1877. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 

(15) 
EARLY  SPRING 

Height,  7  inches;  width,  9*4  icnhes 

As  tke  owner  says,  ''One  can  squeeze  tke  water 
out  of  tkose  leaves  witk  one's  fingers. '  One  is  in  an 
open  wood,  witk  tke  screened  ligkt  so  diffused  tkat 
tkere  are  few  skadows.  Across  tke  background  one 
looks  into  tke  green  toucked  kere  and  tkere  witk 
yellow,  wkere  tke  sunligkt  percolates  indiredlly. 
Out  of  tkis  comes  a  brook,  its  waters  a  cool  green  and 
marked  by  tke  brown  refledrions  of  tke  tkick  carpet 
of  leaves  on  its  banks,  dotted  witk  greenisk  and  grays 
isk  brown  rocks,  and  crossed  by  a  low  bridge. 

Painted  on  a  panel.    A  pendant  to  "Late  Autumn,"  in  the  same  ownership. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 


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(16) 

RA^UETTE  LAKE 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  24Vi  inches 

One  of  tKe  attradlive  canvases  of  the  arti^'s  earlier 
period,  a  typical  expression  of  American  landscape  in 
autumn,  wKen  the  colors  are  ^rong  and  the  atmos? 
pKere  hazy.  TKe  fair  blue  sky  is  of  a  pale?turquoise 
note,  between  clouds  aloft  and  over  di^ant  mountain 
tops,  where  they  merge  with  the  mi^s,  the  clouds 
being  ju^  touched  with  color.  The  mountains  extend 
across  the  pidlure,  and  the  lake  comes  into  view  before 
them,  at  the  foot  of  the  range  and  in  the  center  of  the 
composition,  and  passing  forward  between  wooded 
points  at  either  side,  expands  over  the  middle  di^ance, 
its  surface  a  pale  greenish;blue,  turned  toward  a  pinks 
ish  flush  by  refledrions  of  the  clouds  and  of  the  bright? 
colored  foliage  of  its  shores.  The  woods  all  around  are 
gay  with  brilliant  red  and  yellow  and  brown,  among^ 
the  deep  green  notes  of  tall  pines.  Across  the  fore? 
ground,  yellowish^green  wild  grasses  and  weeds  are 
growing,  and  gray  rocks  are  there,  and  a  bit  of  a  rail 
fence. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1869. 
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A  GLIMPSE  OF  THE  SEA 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  25  inches 

Blue  sky,  of  clear  and  deep  tone,  is  partially  dis? 
closed  in  a  sedtion  of  the  heavens,  whick  elsewhere 
are  obscured  by  delicate  clouds  of  pearly^gray  hue, 
enlivened  by  gentle  rose^pink  flushes.  Below  them, 
far  at  the  left,  the  hazy  sea  all  but  merges  with  them 
at  the  gray  horizon,  the  white  surf  line  of  its  low  and 
slowsmoving  waves  refledling  the  light  in  the  left 
middle  di^ance.  To  right  of  the  surf  line,  dunes  or 
rocky  mounds  begin,  rising  high  over  the  horizon  and 
blotting  out  the  view  of  the  sea, — outpo^s  of  rising 
land  which  is  sugge^ed  at  the  boundary  of  the  pidlure 
on  the  right.  These  mounds  are  full  of  delicate  color, 
— gray,  buff,  ironsru^,  green  of  different  tones,  —  and 
short  bushes,  leaning  under  habitual  wind^pressure, 
are  seen  on  the  sea  sides  of  the  mounds,  rising  over 
their  tops.  The  foreground,  sloping  from  the  right  and 
around  the  dunes  toward  the  brief  surf  line,  is  a  mots 
tling  of  soft  verdure  with  brown  touches,  and  here  and 
there  an  intermingling  of  the  gray  foundation  sand. 
The  sea  being  shut  out  from  the  view,  beyond  the 
dunes,  yet  glimpsed  farther  away  at  the  left,  there  is 
an  atmosphere  and  a  feeling  of  peace  and  of  a  quiet 
retreat,  though  in  the  open  and  near  the  boundless 
ocean. 

A  Newport  subject  probably  painted  in  the  late  nineties. 
Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin. 
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HEADWATERS  OF  THE  HUDSON 

Height,  20  inches;  width,  32  inches 

A  silvery  thread,  tke  beginning  oftke  great  river  is 
seen  as  it  breaks  its  way  tkrougb  tke  fastnesses  oftke 
migkty  kills .  Beyond  it  tke  mountains  rise,  tier  upon 
tier,  tkeir  fartkest  outlines  lost  in  tke  clouded  sky. 
Tkrougk  tke  rifts  in  tke  clouds  tke  sunUgkt  falls  in 
fitful  gleams  on  tke  kiUs  and  into  tke  valleys.  Tke 
foKage  everywkere  is  toucked  witk  tke  glorious  aus 
tumnal  coloring,  adding  brilliantly  to  tke  beauty  of 
tke  landscape. 

This  picture  apparently  served  as  the  inspiration  for  Mr.  Untermyer's  great 
canvas  "Adirondack  Scenery." 

Signed  at  the  right  and  dated,  H.  D.  Martin,  1869. 

Thomas  B.  Clarke  Collection,  1899. 

Emerson  McMillin  Collection,  1913. 


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AUTUMN  IN  THE  ADIRONDACKS 

Height,  22  inches;  width,  40  inches 

A  bold  and  expansive  landscape  is  spread  before  tke 
eye,  and  a  red  glow  is  over  tke  land,  as  of  sunset  in= 
tensifying  tbe  cardinal  ve^ure  of  the  autumn  woods. 
FootbiUs  of  tbe  mountains,  bigb  and  rounded,  and 
seamed  by  ravines  witb  steep  sides,  occupy  tbe  fore= 
ground  on  tbe  rigbt  and  mount  toward  a  sky  of  tenu? 
ous  wbite  clouds.  Toward  tbe  left  a  river  winds  along 
tbe  bases  of  tbe  bills,  vanisbing  among  bigblands  and 
lowlands  of  tbe  middle  di^ance,  its  left=b  and  border  a 
low  sbore  radiant  witb  more  of  tbe  fro^^kissed  foliage 
of  tree  and  busb,  blusbing  in  tbe  sunligbt. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1871. 
Emerson  McMillin  Collection,  1913. 
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RICHMOND  ON  THAMES 

Height,  16  inches;  width,  21  inches 

There  is  noticeable  quality  in  the  blue  and  green 
Thames,  mottled  by  reflections  of  a  deep  blue  sky  full 
of  heavy  white  clouds,  and  by  the  dark  shadows — 
which  come  toward  the  spedtator — of  short,  thick, 
bushy,  dark  green  trees  growing  on  the  land  across 
the  river.  The  ^ream  enters  the  composition  in  the 
middle  di^ance  near  the  center,  under  the  gray  ^one 
arched  bridge,  and  crossing  the  landscape  at  a  leisure* 
ly  diagonal  passes  out  of  the  pidlure  in  the  right  fore? 
ground.  The  farther  bank  is  thick  with  trees  and  lush, 
bright  green  grass;  the  nearer  shore  a  ^rand  of  deep, 
reddish^brown  of  rich  quality,  marked  by  a  fence  near 
which  a  ^rip  of  green  grass  is  growing,  and  beyond  it 
is  a  luxuriant  oak.  Various  figures  appear  along  the 
i^rand,  a  slant  of  sunlight  ^riking  upon  those  near 
the  bridge  and  upon  a  neighboring  group  of  buildings. 
Beyond  the  bridge,  across  the  background,  the  wood* 
ed  hill  rises,  buildings  are  seen  upon  it,  and  parts  of  its 
bank  are  touched  by  sunshine. 

This  canvas  was  painted  about  the  year  1877.  The  composition  of  this  picture 
was  several  times  altered  and  all  the  lower  portion  added  and  at  a  somewhat  later 
date. 

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SARANAC  LAKE 

Height,  24  inches;  width,  40  inches. 

A  low  and  narrow  foreground  is  green  and  brown 
and  gray,  witK  eartk,  boulders  and  grasses — and  isos 
lated  wild  flowers  intermingling .  At  its  left  is  the  edge 
of  the  green  fore^,  and  at  its  rigbt  a  group  of  leaning 
bircKes,  these  separate  tree  masses  framing  a  view  of 
tbe  lake  wkicK  occupies  tbe  middle  di^ance,  lying 
before  a  wooded  and  mountainous  background  wbich 
makes  a  massive  di^ance.  Tbe  bosom  of  tbe  lake  bas 
a  delicate  sbeen  of  a  silvery  ^blue,  almo^  overborne  by 
and  merging  in  tbe  green  reflections  of  tbe  fore^ 
surroundings.  Above  tbe  mountain  tops  plenteous 
smokysgray  and  gray?wbite  clouds  aU  but  obscure  a 
blue  sky. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1878. 
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WINDSOR  CASTLE 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  24  inches 

The  ancient  fortress^ca^lc,  on  Ker  keigKts,  is  seen 
from  far  below,  her  massive  towers  rising  again^  a 
light  gray  sky  of  late  afternoon,  in  wkick  traces  of  the 
blue  are  distinguishable  aloft — above  the  soft,  grayish? 
white  clouds  which  give  the  whole  expanse  its  tone. 
The  season  is  early  summer,  and  trees  are  in  full,  ricn 
foliage.  They  make  up  a  large  part  of  the  pidiure, 
almo^  framing  the  castle  —  except  above,  where  the 
^urdy  battlements,  unconfined,  soar  skyward.  The 
fortress  and  terrace  appear  over  a  solid  bank  of  trees 
which  grow  across  the  lowlands  at  the  base  of  the 
great  escarpment.  At  the  foot  of  these  dense  trees  a 
group  of  stock  buildings — sandy sgray  and  a  warm, 
reddishsbrown — ^and  on  the  far  side  of  an  interven; 
ing  meadow  whose  lush  grass,  well  watered  by  the 
neighboring  river,  is  a  Ught,  yellowish^green  in  con? 
tra^  to  the  deep  tone  of  the  trees.  Toward  the  left 
two  figures  trudge  across  the  meadow.  On  the  hither 
side  of  the  meadow  lies  the  river,  which  passes  from 
view  in  the  left  foreground,  a  part  of  which  it  forms. 
Farther  toward  the  right  the  foreground  is  made  up 
of  a  narrow  bit  of  the  river's  nearer  shore  of  brown* 
sandy  earth,  with  loose  green  grasses  and  weeds 
flourishing  along  the  water's  edge.  This  pidture  was 
finished  in  1878. 

Mr.  George  A.  Hearn  owns  an  interesting  decorative  version  of  this  theme 
painted  on  leather. 

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UANSE  ST.  ETIENNE,  SAGUENAY 

(WATER  COLOR) 
Height,  6^/^  inches;  width,  10  inches 

A  killside,  yellowisKsgreen,  slopes  from  the  rigkt 
to  a  foreground  where  tall  grasses  of  a  deeper  green 
shoot  up  ahove  the  shorter  grass,  and  to  the  left  also, 
where  it  falls  abruptly  to  a  narrow  ravine,  beyond 
which  rises  on  the  farther  left  and  toward  the 
ground  a  steep,  wooded  hill.  On  the  cre^  of  the  green 
hillside  at  the  right  is  a  brown  cottage  with  a  sloping, 
reddishsbrown  roof,  and  various  smaller  buildings  are 
seen  in  part  lower  down  the  incline  and  in  the  ravine. 

Inscribed  at  the  lower  right,  "L'anse  St.  Etienne,  Saguenay,  July  25,  '79." 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  D.  M.  STIMSON. 

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L'ANSE  AUX  BASSES  PIERRES 

(WATER  COLOR) 

Height,  7  inches;  width,  10  inches 

Under  the  gray  sky  of  a  light  summer  day  a  corner 
of  the  bay,  lying  between  the  low  rocks  of  the  fore^ 
ground  and  tall,  light?green  and  dark  hillsides  on  the 
right,  which  extend  back  and  toward  the  left.  The 
rocks  or  broken  boulders  are  gray  and  green,  the  wa? 
ter  is  a  light  gray  and  barely  mottled  by  slight  motion. 
In  midsdi^ance,  at  anchor,  toward  the  right,  is  Dr. 
Stimson's  shallop,  its  tall  ma^  rising  above  the  hills. 

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BLOSSOMING  TREES 

Height,  16  inches;  width,  24  inches 

A  lovely  painting  of  inviting  nature,  a  tender  im- 
pression  of  blossoming  springtime  on  a  quiet  day  in 
the  country.  A  wild  and  grassy  field  forms  tKe  fore? 
ground,  extending  back  on  the  left  to  the  border  of  a 
wood.  In  tbe  middle  di^ance  kere,  detached  from  tbe 
wood  and  separated  from  it  by  an  indenting  arm  of  a 
river,  a  line  of  slender  trees  are  in  full  blossom,  wbite 
in  tbe  sunligbt,  and  extending  transversely  over  near? 
ly  balf  tbe  breadtb  of  tbe  pidlure.  Tbe  silvery  river 
at  tbe  rigbt  bears  on  its  fartber  courses  tbe  sbadows 
of  woods  along  its  low  fartber  sbore  and  across  tbe 
di^ance  tbere,  and  its  insjutting  arm  near  tbe  bios? 
soming  trees  is  marked  by  reflections  of  tall  trees  witb 
graceful  brancbes  wbicb  ^and  at  tbe  bream's  edge 
on  tbe  outskirts  of  tbe  denser  wood  of  tbe  left. 

A  Normandy  study  of  the  middle  eighties. 
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ON  THE  SEINE 

Height,  22     inches;  width,  30  inches 

On  the  rigkt,  trees  in  mass  and,  in  the  center  of 
an  opening  between  two  of  the  largest  of  the  trees 
through  which  the  light  of  late  afternoon  breams, 
there  ^ands  a  birch  with  feathery  top,  the  trunk: 
showing  silvery  again^  the  foliage  of  the  trees  at  the 
right.  The  foreground  is  grassy,  of  a  rich  green  with 
Wretches  of  clay  or  sand  showing  red.  At  the  left, 
two  willows  much  cut  back,  but  with  a  few  slender 
branches  covered  with  foliage  and  giving  considerable 
mass  to  this  detail.  In  the  center,  a  great  tree  has  fallen 
in  the  river  and  the  huge  gnarled  trunk  is  shown  at 
the  right  of  the  willows.  The  sky  is  full  of  the  gold 
of  midsummer  afternoon  relieved  at  the  top  by  great 
clouds.  The  river  is  of  a  calm  silvery  tone  and  the 
hills  appearing  on  the  opposite  bank  are  rich  and  warm 
and  fully  colored.  The  pidlure  is  altogether  a  very 
serene  and  beautiful  example,  exceedingly  poetic  and 
is  evidently  a  work  of  his  later  years. 

Signed  at  the  right,  H.  D.  Martin._ 
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THE  DUNES 

(WATER  COLOR) 
Height,  10  inches;  width,  14  inches 

Under  a  blue  sky,  tall  sand  dunes  come  into  tke 
pidture  from  tke  left,  wKere  they  form  a  Kigk  bluff 
wbicb  beyond  tke  center  of  tbe  composition  begins  its 
gentle  and  broken  slope  toward  tbe  rigbt  and  passes 
out  of  view.  Near  its  crown  are  sligbt  groups  of  trees, 
and  before  one  of  tbem  a  figure  is  seen,  wandering 
along  tbe  bluff,  wbose  sides  sbow  green  as  tbey  slope 
toward  a  verdant  foreground. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1883. 
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THE  MOONLIT  POND-HONFLEUR 

Height,  10  inches;  width,  14  inches 

Tbe  pond  occupies  tbe  foreground,  tbe  narrowest 
bit  of  its  green,  grassy  sbore  crossing  tbe  pidture.  On 
tbe  fartber  sb  ore  flowers  or  busbes  blossom  on  tbe 
low  bank,  back  of  tbem  rising  a  line  of  tall,  slender 
trees,  beyond  wbicb,  across  a  moonlit  field,  low 
woods  form  tbe  di^nce.  In  tbe  early  evening  sky, 
screened  witb  Hgbt  clouds,  tbe  crescent  moon,  ber 
silvery ^wbite  form  refled:ed  in  tbe  pond.  Again^  tbe 
fartber  bank  a  figure  in  a  beavy  green  boat. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  Homer  Martin. 

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NORMANDY  LANDSCAPE 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  24  inches 

At  an  inviting  Kour  of  a  delightful  afternoon  of 
early  autumn,  the  sped:ator  is  taken  to  a  quiet,  seclude 
edspot  oftke  countryside,  overlooking  a  bit  of  shallow 
water.  A  strip  of  red^sandy  eartK  is  disclosed  in  the 
immediate  foreground,  where  a  single  small  boulder 
rises  above  the  earth4evel  at  the  water's  edge.  From 
the  left,  beyond  the  water,  a  bank  of  land  crowned 
by  open  brown  fields  projcdts,  in  the  middle  di^ance, 
descending  toward  the  center  of  the  composition  to  a 
low  point  about  which  the  ^ream  curves  into  view, 
the  short  slope  supporting  a  transverse  line  of  trees 
whose  green  and  autumn^tinged  foliage  rubles  in  a 
gentle  afternoon  breeze.  On  the  right  is  a  green,  red 
and  brown  wood,  before  which  are  low,  thickly? 
growing  bushes  of  a  warm,  reddishsbrown  hue.  Far 
in  the  central  di^ance  is  seen  a  flat,  sun-  ht  field, 
bounded  by  low  trees  along  the  horizon.  The  re? 
fledted  light  from  a  sky  full  of  pearly  white  clouds, 
with  a  faint  flush  of  lavender?rose,  brightens  the  fore? 
ground  water  and  limns  there  the  shadows  of  trees 
and  trunks. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  Homer  D.  Martin. 
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THE  LIGHTHOUSE,  HONFLEUR 

Height,  lOV^  inches;  width,  8  inches 

Tkc  blufF  or  clifF  of  the  coa^,  Kigk  at  the  left 
wKere  it  comes  into  view,  is  in  strong  silhouette 
again^  a  bright  evening  sky  whick  ca^s  tke  cKff 's 
nearer  side  into  skadow  and  tkrows  forward  upon  tke 
water  tke  dark,  tapering  skadow  of  tke  tall,  gray  ligkt? 
kouse,  its  lamp  aHgkt.  Tke  sea,  filling  in  tke  fore* 
ground,  refledls  tke  gray^blue  and  wkite  notes  of  tke 
windy,  adtive  sky.  Under  tke  skadow  of  tke  cliff, 
some  buildings,  gray  in  tke  gatkering  skadows,  in  one 
of  wkick  yellow  ligkts  gleam  from  two  windows. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin. 

Original  study  for  the  large  canvas  owned  by  the  Century  Club. 
COLLECTION  OF  DR.  ALEXANDER  C.  HUMPHREYS. 

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RUBY  STRONG-NORMANDY 

Height,  14  inches;  width,  11  inches 

A  beack  of  sandy  *  brown  and  grayisk?  yellow, 
marked  by  skgkt  patckes  of  dark  brown  seaweed, 
occupies  tke  foreground.  Beyond  ^retckes  tke  blue? 
green  sea.  Near  tke  center  of  tke  beack.  Ruby  Strong 
i^ands  in  an  easy  attitude,  facing  tke  left,  ker  full  fea* 
tures  seen  in  profile.  Ske  wears  knee  skirts  and  is 
bare4egged,  ker  dark  skirt  surmounted  by  a  gray? 
green  jacket  witk  vertical  red  Gripes.  Her  dark  kair 
kangs  about  ker  skoulders,  and  ske  ^ands  witk  arms 
bekind  ker — gazing  ^eadfastly  afar  off. 

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SAND  DUNES,  LAKE  ONTARIO 

Height,  12  inches;  width,  20  inches. 

An  early  painting  of  the  landscape  wkicK  was 
pidtured  later  in  larger  terms  in  tke  great  canvas  of 
tKe  George  A.  Hearn  collediion  at  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art.  This  indeed  was  the  fir^  of  several 
versions  of  the  same  theme.  The  encroaching  gray? 
white  sands  sweeping  diagonally  across  the  fores 
ground,  which  they  form,  have  partially  engulfed 
solid  trees  whose  hrown  and  leanino  trunks  —  seen 
only  near  their  upper  branches — rise  out  of  the  waste 
at  right  and  left,  a  few  crumpled  leaves  cUnging  to 
some  of  the  tips.  From  a  tree  at  the  right  a  withered 
branch  projedls  low  over  the  sand  in  the  immediate 
foreground,  meeting  scraggly  branches  rising  through 
the  blading  grains  from  a  tree  on  the  left.  Below  the 
light  foreground,  across  the  middle  di^ance,  is  a  dark 
band  of  red,  brown  and  green  brush,  growing  above 
the  low  reaches  of  brown  land  and  blue  water  where 
the  lake  puts  in  from  the  right.  Around  the  left,  be? 
yond  the  dark  middle  di^ance,  the  lake  is  bounded  by 
higher  dunes,  broken  and  irregular,  some  barren  and 
some  on  which  hardy  vegetation  has  gained  a  foothold, 
the  barren  sections  making  light  spots  in  the  landscape , 
under  rather  a  sombre  gray?blue  sky. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1874. 
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LOW  TIDE,  HONFLEUR 

Height,  14  inches;  width,  24  inches 

TKe  coa^  looks  bleak,  at  a  bleak  Kour  toward  tke 
close  of  a  cloudy  day, — bleak  and  forsaken,  its  loneli* 
ness  only  empkasized  by  tbe  presence  of  a  single, 
bumble,  apparently  deserted  building,  witK  irregular, 
low  tbatcbed  roof,  tbat  ^ands  ju^  above  Kigb?tide 
mark  at  tbe  foot  of  a  low,  green  bill.  Tbe  green  land 
enters  tbe  pidture  from  tbe  left,  sloping  forward  and 
to  tbe  rigbt,  down  to  tbe  yellow^sandy  beacb,  of  tbe 
foreground  and  rigbt  middle  di^ance,  from  wbicb  tbe 
tide  bas  receded.  Tbe  beavy  sky  is  completely  filled 
witb  dark,  slaty,  creamy^wbite  and  faintly  lavender* 
tinged  clouds. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin. 

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EVENING  ON  THE  SEINE 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  30  inches 

Beyond  a  low,  marshy  foreground,  muddy?brown 
and  gray  and  green,  whicli  tKe  river  invades  in  irreg? 
ular  patches,  the  main  body  of  the  ^ream  is  seen  flow? 
ing  across  the  pidlure,  its  farther  hank  a  dark,  indefi? 
nite  hne  of  low  hills,  in  the  twilight.  The  cloudy  sky 
aloft  is  dark,  and  alow  along  the  we^ern  horizon  is 
i^ill  bright  with  thick,  yellowish=white  clouds  which 
near  the  darker  vapor  show  touches  of  lavender.  In 
the  middle  di^ance  far  at  the  left,  on  higher  land  of 
the  hither  bank,  the  mass  of  a  town's  buildings  rises 
in  silhouette  again^  the  lighter  part  of  the  sky,  and 
deepens  the  shadows  of  evening  before  it. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin. 

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ON  THE  SEINE 

Height,  12V^i  inches;  width,  22%  inches 

The  sky  is  filled  with  wKite  and  gray  clouds,  save 
for  one  long  ^reak  of  turquoise.  The  peacefiil  Seine 
flows  about  an  angle  of  land  which  forms  the  fores 
ground,  green  with  tangled  grass  and  wild  brush 
growths,  with  which  bits  of  color  mingle.  Extends 
ing  almo^  i^raight  out  from  the  observer  toward  the 
i^ream  is  a  short  line  of  tall,  slender  trees,  devoid  of 
leaves  or  branches,  except  that  a  tiny  tuft  of  foliage 
waves  at  the  high  top  of  each.  Across  the  river  a 
group  of  indu^rial  buildings  is  seen,  along  the  low, 
flat  bank,  and  back  of  them  a  line  of  hills  above  which 
rises  a  wooded  mound.  A  church  spire  mounting 
above  the  hills  is  refledted  in  the  water,  its  shadow 
neighbor  to  that  of  a  laden  sloop  with  yellow  sails 
which  is  seen  in  the  middle  di^ance. 


Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin. 
William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1913. 
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ON  THE  HUDSON 

Height,  24  inches;  width,  34  inches 

A  va^  landscape  is  spread  before  the  eye,  in  one 
of  the  mo^  comprehensive  views  that  the  arti^  has 
undertaken  to  render.  Near  and  far  it  is  as  abundant 
as  Nature  herself.  Sunlight  and  shadows  vary  it  and 
in  the  di^ance  clouds  are  neighbors  to  it.  Beyond  an 
immediate  foreground  of  clearing  is  a  foreground  of 
thick  trees  extending  across  the  pidlure,  the  nearer 
side  darkened  in  shadow,  the  tops  of  the  taller  trees 
lightening  as  the  foliage  lessens.  Beyond  them  and 
seen  below,  over  their  tops,  from  higher  land,  is  the 
noble  river,  taking  something  of  a  diagonal  course,  and 
silvers gr ay  with  cloud  refledtions .  Across  the  ^r earn, 
the  land  on  the  farther  side  spreads  far  and  wide  and 
is  dotted  with  the  habitations  of  men,  and  seems  in  the 
picture  to  join  in  the  di^ance  with  the  clouds. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1881. 
COLLECTION  OF  JOHN  T.  PRATT,  ESQ. 


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A  FOREST  BROOK 

Height,  14  inches;  width,  26  inches 

Under  a  glowing  sky  aflame  witk  yellowed  sunset 
kues,  a  bend  of  a  fore^  brook  is  sbown,  passing  at  the 
foot  of  a  bill  wbicb  ^ands  on  tbe  rigbt,  and  coursing 
among^  small  boulders  of  tbe  foreground.  Tbe  deptbs 
of  tbe  sky  take  a  Grange  green  ratber  tban  blue  tone, 
in  tbe  admixture  of  cross^refledtions  from  tbe  varied 
clouds.  Parts  of  tbe  foreground  are  in  sbadow,  else? 
wbere  tbe  glowing  brilliance  of  tbe  sunset  reflections 
ligbtens  botb  tbe  brook  and  its  sbores,  playing  in  a 
multiplicity  of  color  on  tbe  sbimmering  surface  of  tbe 
water,  on  green^encrui^ed  rocks,  and  on  leaf=^rewn 
banks  witb  a  riot  of  green  and  blossoming  wild  berb* 
age  and  undergrowtb. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1881. 

Obtained  from  the  artist. 

IN  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION. 


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COAST  MEADOWS,  ST.  SAUVEUR 

Height,  7  inches;  width,  10  inches 

Under  a  gray  sky  whose  lower  expanse  is  tinged 
witK  fainted  lavender^pink,  some  cattle  are  sKown, 
grazing.  Tke  coaxal  meadows  in  wKicK  tKey  wans 
der  are  a  deep,  rick,  lusK  green  of  a  fine  quality.  The 
cattle  are  in  a  scattered  group,  a  red  and  wKite  cow 
foraging  toward  tke  right,  Ker  companions  of  various 
colors  farther  back  and  all  hut  one  with  heads  down 
in  the  inviting  verdure.  Far  off,  under  the  dull  sky, 
is  a  wavy  line  of  deep,  dark  hlue. 

Homer  himself  wrote  the  title  on  the  back  of  this  picture,  as  Mrs.  Martin  attests. 
Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1881. 
COLLECTION  OF  LYMAN  A.  MILLS,  ESQ. 

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LANDSCAPE 

Height,  11%  inches;  width,  19%  inches 

A  verdant  hillside  sweeps  across  the  picfture,  slops 
ing  forward  to  a  nearly  level,  green  foreground, 
marked  with  hght  yellow  and  dark  browns  among ^ 
the  sh  ort  herbage  of  a  farmyard,  with  a  gray  ^able 
with  yellowsbrown  roof  landing  at  the  left.  On  the 
hillside  is  a  hamlet  of  small  cottages  and  a  church, 
their  walls  gray — or  pinkish* white,  and  the  roofs  red 
or  dark  brown.  In  the  foreground  and  middle  di^ance 
are  slender  trees  of  mahogany =brown  foKage — the 
whole  under  a  peculiar  twiUght  glow. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1883. 
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AN  ADIRONDACK  LAKE-LAKE  SANFORD 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  29 inches 

It  is  the  fall  of  the  year,  the  leaves  of  the  fore^  trees 
Kave  begun  to  turn,  the  mountains  are  full  of  ricK  color 
in  a  crisp  atmospKere,  Kunters  are  out,  and  the  beauti* 
ful  mountain  lake  lies  spread  before  tbe  observer,  ju^ 
beyond  tke  narrov/e^  of  foregrounds  of  brown?sandy 
soil.  It  is  an  end  or  bay  of  the  lake  that  comes  into 
viev/  from  tbe  rigbt  and  is  bounded  on  tbe  left  by  a 
wooded  sbore,  tbe  nearer  and  sborter  trees  brilliant 
in  tbeir  autumn  coloring  of  red  and  brown,  and  taller 
trees  wbicb  rise  above  tbem  retaining  tbeir  green. 
On  tbe  low,  sloping  bank,  near  tbe  water's  edge,  two 
bunters  ^and  over  tbe  body  of  a  deer  tbey  bave 
bagged,  tbeir  boats  bauled  up  on  tbe  bank  near  tbem. 
Tbe  fartber  sbore  of  tbe  lake,  in  tbe  middle  distance, 
is  low  and  tbickly  wooded,  and  sbares  in  its  abundant 
foHage  tbe  brigbt  colors  of  tbe  left^band  sbore.  Be? 
,  yond,  in  tbe  di^ance,  tbe  mountains  repose  in  majes? 
tic  ^ate,  tbeir  tone  a  green?blue,  tbeir  summits  ming? 
ling  witb  tbe  sbifting  vapors  of  a  sky  of  ligbt,  tenuous 
clouds  wbicb  reveal  creamy?yellow  and  yellowisb? 
pink  toucbes  of  late  afternoon.  Tbe  water  of  tbe  lake 
mirrors  tbe  ricblyscolored  and  ^rangely  commingled 
refledlions  of  trees,  mountains  and  sky  in  a  subdued 
yet  brilliant  glow — ligbt  at  tbe  rigbt,  in  sbadow  of 
tbe  tall  trees  of  its  bank  on  tbe  left. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1883. 
COLLECTION  OF  JAMES  G.  SHEPHERD,  ESQ. 

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LOWER  AUSABLE  POND 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  30  inches 

TKe  water  of  tke  pond  is  a  cool  green,  and  largely 
in  tke  Kalf^ligkt  of  the  late  day  or  early  morning,  and 
also  in  tke  skadows  of  tke  neigkboring  kills  and  mouns 
tains.  In  tke  foreground,  grasses,  reeds  and  ruskes 
projedl  above  tke  placid  surface,  and  ducks  are  flying 
low  over  tke  water  or  swimming  among  tke  reeds. 
In  tke  middle  di^ance  a  slant  of  sunKgkt  coming 
tkrougk  between  tke  mountains  makes  a  silvery? 
wkite  ^reak  on  tke  surface  of  tke  pond,  gli^ening  ju^ 
before  its  fartker  skore,  wkick  at  tke  left  is  marked  by 
a  dark  Kne  of  low  trees  at  tke  water's  edge.  Back  of 
tkese  rise  tke  rougk,  irregular  mountains,  tkeir  keavy 
flanks  greens  wooded  and  tkeir  tall  peaks  mounting  far 
toward  a  sky  of  faint  blue,  filled  witk  yellowisk  and 
reddisk^tinged  clouds.  On  tke  rigkt  in  tke  middle  diss 
tance  tke  sk  ore  is  a  wooded  kill,  rising  at  a  gentle  slope 
and  tkrowing  its  skadow  over  tke  water  before  it. 
Tke  edge  of  tkis  skore,  under  tke  trees,  seems  to  be 
dotted  witk  cottages. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  and  at  the  lower  right,  1868. 

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DECEMBER  MORNING  IN  NORMANDY 

Height,  20  inches;  width,  36  inches 

A  broad  Killside  on  the  right  slopes  gently  to  a  val* 
ley,  wkicK  occupies  tKe  central  and  larger  part  of  the 
pidture,  being  bounded  on  the  left  by  the  sugge^ion 
of  a  lesser  Killside  rising  tbere  along  tbe  foreground 
and  middle  di^ance.  Coming  tbrougk  tbe  valley  diag* 
onally  and  passing  from  view  in  tbe  rigbt  foreground, 
is  a  narrow  river  or  broad  brook,  its  greenisb^blue 
waters  darkened  by  sbadows  of  brown  busbes  and 
berbage  wbicb  mingle  witb  tbe  greenery  of  its  low 
banks,  and  its  surface  mirroring  also  tbe  trunks  of  tall, 
slender  trees  tbat  grow  in  a  long,  irregular  line  a  little 
dii^tant  on  tbe  farther  side  of  the  ^ream.  To  left  of  the 
^ream  the  foreground  and  middle  di^ance  is  low  and 
flat  land,  mottled  in  attradlive  tones  of  warm  brown 
and  green,  as  barren  earth  or  verdure  gets  the  better 
hand.  A  little  di^ance  down  the  road,  here,  a  peasant 
figure  is  seen,  walking,  and  beyond,  at  the  verge  ofthe 
low  hill  at  the  left,  redsroofed  cottages  nestle.  A  deep 
blue  sky  is  filled  with  clouds  which  are  mottled  in 
many  tints  by  the  sunlight  coming  from  back  of  the 
high,  right?hand  hill,  whose  screening  mass  leaves  all 
the  re^  of  the  landscape  in  a  soft,  attradlive  halflight. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin,  1883. 

Obtained  from  the  artist. 

IN  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION. 


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LOW  TIDE-VILLERVILLE 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  24  inches 

Far  out  toward  a  KigK  Korizon  tke  ocean  is  a  dull, 
brownisKsgray,  under  a  lighter  gray  sky.  The  fore^ 
ground  is  a  flat,  brown,  sandy  beacK,  wkere  a  solitary 
figure  in  white  cap  and  brown  skirt  is  seen  bending 
over  to  pick  up  sometking  from  tke  sands.  As  tke 
low  billows  roll  slowly  up  tke  skallows,  combing  into 
wkite  foam,  tke  wavy  wkite  lines  make  tke  ligkte^ 
spots  in  tke  pidture,  on  a  day  wken  tke  sun  is  obscured. 
Tke  nearer  sides  oftke  waves,  seen  below  tke  foamy 
cre^s,  are  a  deep  brown,  as  tkey  bear  skoreward  tkick 
brands  of  seaweed,  patckes  of wkick  are  seen  marking 
tke  kigke^  or  neare^  of  tke  wave^Unes  up  tke  Deacn. 
Tke  middle  di^ance  toward  tke  left  is  dark  under  a 
cloudsskadow.  A  picture  of  tke  desert  reackes  oftke 
seaskore  on  a  gray  but  Hgkt  and  peaceful  day,  witk  a 
fine  quality  in  tke  painting  oftke  beack  sand  and  tke 
seaweed. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1884. 
William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1913. 
PROPERTY  OF  MISS  A.  B.  JENNINGS. 


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LAKE  GEORGE 

Height,  13  inches;  width,  20  inches 

Autumnal  brown  and  sugge^ions  of  dull  red  tinge  a 
broad,  low,  green  foreground,  which  is  broken  by 
grayishswhite  rocks,  and  the  same  hues  reappear 
among  a  mass  of  trees  on  the  right  and  in  a  detached 
tree  or  two  toward  the  left.  Beyond,  between  the  tree 
groups,  lies  the  Horicon,  a  blend  of  gray?white  and 
pale  blue,  reflecting  a  sky  which  bears  these  tones  of 
summer  throughout,  wide?spreading  over  a  landscape 
marked  by  the  notes  of  advancing  fall.  The  farther 
shore  of  the  lake  is  visible  toward  the  left,  in  the  dis* 
tance. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1884. 

From  the  Collection  of  William  T.  Evans,  who  obtained  the  canvas  from  the 
artist. 

PROPERTY  OF  GEORGE  BARR  McCUTCHEON,  ESQ. 


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CREPUSCULE-MONTVILLIERS 

Height,  19%  inches;  width,  24  inches 

A  country  Kouse  set  in  a  little  copse  of  trees,  upon 
an  eminence,  is  seen  again^  tKe  early  evening  sky. 
Above,  ju^  to  the  rigkt  of  the  buildings,  bangs  tbe  new 
moon.  In  tbe  foreground  a  brook  wanders  at  tbe  foot 
of  tbe  rising  ground,  tbrougb  an  open  meadow,  tbe 
trees  and  tbe  sky  refledledin  its  sbining  surface.  Tbis 
canvas,  painted  by  Martin  in  France,  was  given  by 
bim,  in  payment  for  work,  to  an  American  dentin 
residing  tbere,  a  Dr.  Sizer. 

Signed  at  the  right,  and  dated,  H.  D.  Martin,  1885. 
COLLECTION  OF  WILLIAM  H.  SAGE. 


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THE  SEA  AT  VILLERVILLE 

Height,  12V^  inches;  width,  23V4  inches. 

A  broad  ^rctcK  of  a  low,  sandy  beacK,  and  a  va^ 
expanse  of  ocean  under  a  Hgkt  sky  TKe  gray^green 
sea  comes  up  in  gentle  motion,  spattering  into  wKite 
foam  and  creeping  up  the  beacK  in  weakening,  uncer? 
tain  ripples.  Fartber  up  tbe  beacb  in  tbe  foreground 
are  patcbes  of  dried  seaweed,  left  by  former  and 
bigber  tides,  and  lending  tbeir  toucb  to  tbe  feeling 
and  atmospbere  of  tbe  great  salty  wa^e. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  '85. 

KANSAS  CITY  ART  INSTITUTE;  PRESENTED  BY  MRS.  W.  P.  THAYER. 

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GOLDEN  SANDS 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  24  inches 

Tbe  sands  are  golden  under  a  soft  ligbt  on  a  quiet 
day  along  tbe  Frencb  seacoa^.  Tbe  tide  is  out  and  a 
woman,  basket  borne  on  ber  back,  is  in  searcb  of  tbe 
foods  yielded  by  tbe  sea.  Sbe  wears  a  black,  sbort 
skirt,  blue  waist  witb  sbortened  sleeves,  and  a  broad? 
brimmed,  brownisb^red,  old  felt  bat.  Tbe  foreground 
is  a  mingled  green  and  brown;  beyond  are  tbe  golden 
sands,  and  afar  tbe  sweep  of  tbe  sea.  At  tbe  rigbt  a 
partly  wooded  point  comes  into  view,  connecting 
witb  tbe  foreground.  Tbe  blue  sky  is  veiled  by  filmy 
cloud,  toucbed  in  one  spot  by  a  faint  pink. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  S.  Martin. 
PROPERTY  OF  MRS.  WILLIAM  MACBETH. 


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THE  MEADOW  BROOK 

Height,  l^Vz  inches;  width,  24  inches 

Across  the  background  a  range  of  more  or  less  even, 
roundedstop  trees  and  Kills  extends,  receding  and  less 
sening  in  keigkt  in  perspedlive  from  the  rigkt,  until  in 
the  di^ance  at  tke  left  tke  tops  of  trees  growing  in 
tke  nearer  lowlands  projedl  above  tke  kilMine.  Tke 
brown  bank  of  tke  kill's  continuous  side  is  covered 
witk  green  timber,  toucked  witk  relieving  reddisk? 
brown,  and  at  tke  base  a  gray  and  a  red  building  are 
seen,  eack  witk  long,  slanting  roof  Tke  broad,  flat 
meadow  of  tke  foreground  is  a  rick,  lusk  green  near 
tke  borders  of  tke  brook  wkick  gives  its  title  to  tke 
canvas,  and  elsewkere  tke  meadow  is  mottled  witk 
tke  varied  notes  of  a  luxuriant  kerbage.  In  tke  middle 
di^ance  toward  tke  left  is  a  pidturesque  group  of slen? 
der,  crooked^trunked  trees  witk  kigk,  sparse,  dark 
green  foliage,  seen  again^  tke  gray  sky,  wkick  is 
marked  kere  and  tkere  by  patckes  of  faint  blue  among 
tke  ^rata  of  grayisk^wkite  cloud.  Tke  water  of  tke 
brook  is  a  deep  green,  witk  ligkt  reflections  of  tke  sky. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  Martin,  1887. 
Stanford  White  Collection,  1907. 
William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1913. 
PROPERTY  OF  MRS.  J.  S.  WATSON. 


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THE  SUN  WORSHIPPERS 

Height,  30  inches;  width,  61  inches 

The  foreground  of  tliis  expansive  painting  is  a 
sligktly  undulating  Wretch  of  tke  Normandy  coa^— 
windswept;  and  the  landscape  would  be  bleak  but  for 
tke  rich  tones  of  warm  brown,  with  here  and  there  a 
touch  of  red,  among;^  the  green  of  grass  and  weed. 
Beyond,  one  looks  to  a  turquoise  sea,  and  over  the 
lower  dips  of  the  undulating  land  surface  to  the  sea's 
nearer  shallows,  where  a  low  surf  breaks,  in  long, 
uneven  Hnes  of  whitening  foam.  Out  over  the  sea 
gray  banks  of  fog  are  drifting  in,  the  sky  above  them 
a  screen  of  nebulous  clouds  of  a  lighter  gray,  warmed 
with  rose  hues.  Along  the  edge  of  the  coaxal  bluff, 
crossing  the  pidlure,  is  a  Hne  of  trees — trees  scattered 
at  the  left  and  center,  and  growing  in  close  order  on  the 
right — short  trees  of  slender,  crooked  trunks,  with 
foliage,  branches  and  trunks  all  alike  blown  toward 
the  right  and  permanently  bent  by  years  of  prevalent 
winds,  the  foliage  rich  in  the  quaHty  of  its  green. 
Whether  or  not  genial  Homer  purposed  entitUng  this 
pidture  ""Trees  on  a  Bender,"  few  regret  the  choice  of 
the  more  poetic  ''Sun  ^Vorshippe^s"  upon  beholding 
these  launch,  arboreal  Normans  extending  umbra? 
geous  arms  toward  unseen  Phoebus  in  the  decUvity 
of  the  heavens,  his  course  a  rose?way  fixed  beyond 
the  gloam. 

Painted  after  the  artist's  return  to  New  York  in  1886. 
COLLECTION  OF  LOUIS  MARSHALL,  ESQ. 


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SOUTH  SIDE  OF  LONG  ISLAND 

Height,  15V^  inches;  width,  24^/2  inches 

One  of  the  many  pid;ures  of  the  neigkborliood  of 
the  salty  sea  of  which  the  arti^  was  as  fond  as  of  his 
nooks,  lakes  and  glens  of  the  woodlands.  He  found 
on  ocean^girt  Long  Island  a  motive  as  congenial  to  him 
as  the  desolate  dunes  near  Newport  or  the  peaceful 
coa^s  of  Normandy ,  and  putting  himself  in  commun* 
ion  with  the  spirit  of  the  place  rendered  its  lonely 
heauty  with  the  charm  of  that  unfailing  quality  that 
was  so  conspicuous  in  his  later  years.  Sandy  reaches 
hy  the  seaside,  scant  herbage,  a  bush  or  bunted  tree 
of  dense  foliage  to  offer  a  little  shadow,  and  a  scatter* 
ing  group  of  short,  slender  trees  of  varying  trunk* 
forms  and  light  leafage,  in  the  middle  di^ance  beyond 
a  gently  sloping  foreground — in  these  he  found  and 
transmitted  an  expression  of  ''the  South  Side  of  Long 
Island." 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1894. 

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CRI^UEBOEUF  CHURCH 

Height,  24V^  inches;  width,  37l/^  inches 

It  was  close  to  this  churck  that  Homer  also  found 
the  motives  for  his  ''Normandy  Farm"  and  ''An  Old 
Manor,  Normandy,"  which  are  reproduced  elses 
where  in  this  volume.  The  ancient,  small  and  pic? 
turesque  church,  its  gray  walls  and  red  roofs  all  but 
hidden  by  the  luxuriant,  clinging  green  ivy,  ^ands  to 
the  right  of  the  center  of  the  pidlure,  ju^  beyond  the 
pond  of  silvery  surface  which  occupies  much  of  the 
foreground  and  of  the  middle  di^ance.  All  around 
the  pond  the  grass  and  weeds  and  field  flowers  are 
green  and  brown,  pink,  red  and  white,  on  the  low 
shores.  Across  the  background  is  a  wooded  hill,  with 
low,  gray=white  buildings  with  thatched  roofs  of  a 
warm,  reddish^brown  banked  up  again^  it.  It  is  late 
in  the  day  and  the  sky,  full  of  bluishsgray,  creamy* 
white  and  rose-tinted  clouds,  ca^s  forward  on  the 
gently  rippling  surface  of  the  pond  the  varied  shadows 
of  church  and  tower  and  trees.  A  poetic  landscape  in 
a  poetic  moment,  calm,  restful,  secluded  and  inviting 
— with  Martin's  sub^antial  drawing  in  buildings  and 
landscape  portraiture.  The  air  is  clear,  with  the 
slowly  ^gathering  moi^ur  e  of evening  in  summer  about 
the  tree^enshrined  water. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1893. 

William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1900. 

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NORMANDY  FARM  . 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  25  inches 

Sitting  nc^led  among  slender  trees,  and  otkers  of 
busKy  foliage,  a  rambling  farmbouse  witb  low,  gray? 
wbite  walls  and  brown=tbatcb  roof  is  placed  but  a  few 
feet  from  a  smootb  pond  wbicb  is  full  of color.  In  parts 
it  takes  green  reflecftions  from  tbe  luxuriant  verdure 
of  its  banks,  elsewbere  is  partly  filled  in  witb  mosses 
and  weeds  tbat  grow  in  its  sluggisb  water,  and  again 
it  mirrors  a  corner  of  tbe  farmbouse,  a  detacbed  tree 
at  tbe  border  of  tbe  water,  or  becomes  a  silverysgray 
and  wbite  wbere  it  refledls  tbe  brigbt  sky.  Tbe  sky 
is  a  clear,  brilliant  blue,  tbougb  obscured  by  soft  wbite 
clouds  wbicb  bere  and  tbere  are  toucbcd  witb  pink 
and  yellow.  To  rigbt  of  tbe  bouse,  green  and  yellow 
fields  extend  invitingly  toward  a  far  norizon.  Tbe 
pond  is  tbe  same  into  wbicb,  on  anotber  side,  tbe  an? 
cient  Criqueboeuf  cburcb,  as  Mrs.  Martin  says,  ''dips 
its  foot."  Tbe  canvas  is  one  of  tbe  last  wbicb  Martin 
painted. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1895. 

First  owned  by  WiUiam  T.  Evans,  Esq.,  who  bought  it  shortly  before  the 
artist's  death.    Later  the  property  of  the  late  Lyman  G.  Bloomingdale. 

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ON  THE  MISSISSIPPI 

Height,  15  inches;  width,  20  inches 

On  the  rigKt  a  Kigk,  flat?topped  Kill  enters  tKe  pic* 
ture,  in  the  middle  di^ance,  its  brow  presently  de* 
dining  ratker  abruptly  to  a  low  point  of  land  wbick 
juts  out  into  tke  river  flowing  around  it.  Tke  Miss? 
issippi  kere  is  relatively  narrow,  as  it  appears  emerge 
ing  from  a  kazy  di^ance  back  of  tke  low  point,  wkick 
witk  tke  kigk  kill  kides  its  upper  courses  from  view; 
and  off  tke  point  it  divides  into  two  breams,  tke  one 
sweeping  in  to  tke  rigkt  about  tke  point  and  vanisking 
from  tke  pidlure,  tke  otker  taking  a  course  leftward 
across  tke  canvas,  its  di^ant  skore  a  low,  indefinite 
land^mass  reacking  to  a  far  korizon.  Between  tkese 
two  branckes  tke  broad  foreground  is  low  and  flat, 
running  into  a  marsky  point  wkere  tke  current  di* 
vides,  and  tke  land  is  grassy  and  moi^,  pale  green  and 
yell  ow.  Tke  moving  river  is  blue  and  wkite — witk 
a  tinge  of  yellow — as  it  reflects  tke  deep  blue  sky  and 
many  clouds  tkere — grayisk^wkite,  yellow,  orange, 
lavender  and  smokysgray.  Tkere  is  a  sense  of  va^? 
ness  and  solitude,  and  of  soft  surfaces  in  a  migkty  land. 

This  canvas,  picturing  the  river  below  St.  Paul,  was  painted  toward  the  close  of 
the  artist's  life. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin. 

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NEWPORT  NECK 

Height,  30  inches;  width,  45  inches 

Abroad  and  brilliant  sweep  of  landscape  and  sea, 
and  a  wonderfully  lighted  sky.  From  the  left  a  long 
and  moderately  bigb  neck  of  barren  coa^  projedts  in 
an  undulating  decline,  its  lower  and  fartkestsreacli= 
ing  Wretches  jutting  into  tke  blue  sea  of  the  di^ance, 
and  into  the  white  and  silvery  shallows  of  the  middle 
di^ance  which  were  left  in  the  hollowed  sands  by  a 
receding  tide.  On  the  right  a  lower  neck  of  similar 
land,  bleak  under  the  sweep  of  the  winds  and  reveal; 
ing  a  few  bunted  trees  or  low  bushes,  comes  into  the 
pidlure  to  help  form  the  pocket  where  the  shallow 
waters  lie  imprisoned — the  shore  between  the  necks, 
in  the  foreground,  being  of  lower  land,  for  the  mo^ 
part  barren  but  sustaining  sparse  herbage  and  some 
short  bushes.  The  herbage  is  a  brownishsgreen,  and 
the  land  about  wears  similar  colors,  here  verging 
more  upon  the  green,  there  pronouncedly  of  a  velvety 
brown,  and  yonder  again  of  a  pla^ic  gray.  The  water 
of  the  silveryswhite  shallows  is  tinged  with  fainted 
pink  and  a  pale  yellow,  as  it  reflects  some  of  the  my; 
riad  notes  in  the  Grange,  effulgent  sky.  Low  over  the 
indigo  sea  is  a  cloud  band  of  slate  hue,  above  which 
cirro;^ratus  clouds  take  tints  of  pearl;gray,  salmon, 
lavendersrose,  moss^green,  and  a  vague  variety  of  in; 
termediate  tones.  In  spots  are  to  be  seen  intimations 
of  the  bright  blue  beyond. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1893. 
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A  NEWPORT  LANDSCAPE 

Height,  18  inches;  width,  30  inches 

Homer  Martin's  last  work.  One  is  living  by  the 
seaside — or  kas  paused  tkere  awhile — and  breathes 
the  atmosphere  of  the  salt  marshes.  Here  the  whole 
spread  of  the  landscape  is  verdure=clad,  a  low,  flat 
foreground  of  salt  meadows  of  grass  more  lush  than 
often  is  seen  on  these  wild  seashore  reaches,  enriched 
in  the  nearer  foreground  with  deeper  tones  of  green 
and  tinges  of  brown  among^  the  taller  herbage.  In 
the  middle  di^ance,  the  gray  and  ru^y=gray  sand  is 
exposed — with  a  noticeable  "■'■quality  '  in  the  paint — 
and  further  to  the  right,  shallow  pools  give  back  light 
reflections  of  the  sky.  From  left  and  right  in  the  mid* 
die  di^ance  rolling  dunes  projed:,  grass=covered  to  the 
right,  the  brown  sand  revealed  on  the  flanks  of  some 
at  the  left.  A  low,  sandy,  sedge=grown  ^rip  of  beach 
extends  between  the  two  banks  of  dunes,  over  it  being 
seen  the  deep,  duU=blue  sea,  under  a  sky  completely 
filled  with  gray,  pearl?gray,  smokysgray  and  creamy? 
white  clouds,  touched  with  rosy^pink.  The  clouds 
are  moving,  in  an  evanescent  effed:,  as  though  all 
would  change  presently.  A  happy,  relaxing  moment 
fixed,  amid  charming  color,  in  the  free  atmosphere  of 
the  unpeopled  coa^. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1896. 
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A  DISTANT  VIEW  OF  CAEN 

Height,  12  inches;  width,  22  inches 

TKe  attradlion  of  tKis  small  and  Kandsome  canvas 
lies  largely  in  tke  quality  of  tke  moi^  foreground,  tke 
atmospheric  after  ^orm  effedls,  and  tke  expansiveness 
of  tke  view  comprehended  and  sugge^ed  within  the 
mode^  material  limits  to  which  the  painter  has  con? 
fined  himself.  Under  a  lowering  dusky?gray  ^orm^ 
cloud  white  clouds  are  massed  above  a  far  horizon.  A 
broad  foreground  of  green  pa^ure  or  wild  land,  travs 
ersed  diagonally  by  a  wandering,  irregular  path, 
shares  with  the  atmosphere  the  feeling  of  wetness 
after  a  passing  shower.  Across  it  in  the  middle 
di^ance  a  line  of  dark  woods  on  high  land,  casing 
their  shadow  forward,  are  seen  before  and  above  a 
low^lying  light  landscape,  illumined  fi:'om  the  Hghter 
clouds  of  the  sky,  and  in  the  di^ance  beyond  rise  the 
towers,  domes,  and  the  mass  of  lower  buildings  of  the 
city,  in  silhouette  on  high  land  across  the  valley. 

Martin's  last  exhibit  at  the  National  Academy  of  Design,  in  1894,  when  the 
painting  was  shown  as  a  loan  by  Mr.  Du  Fais. 

Signed  at  the  lower  left,  H.  D.  Martin. 

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THE  BROOK 

Height,  13  inches;  width,  20  inches 

Out  of  the  fatnesses  of  a  fore^  a  clear  brook  comes 
into  view  near  tke  center  of  the  canvas,  in  tke  middle 
di^ance,  and  passes  from  sigkt  in  tke  foreground  at 
tke  left.  Tke  tkick  foliage  of  tke  fore^  closes  out  all 
of  tke  sky  save  a  narrow,  irregular,  inverted?cone* 
skaped  space,  over  tke  spot  wkere  tke  krook  emerges, 
and  kere  it  discloses  an  even  tone  of  ligkt  gray  cloud. 
Tke  krook,  at  times  rippling  over  flat  ^ones,  refledls 
tke  green  of  tke  surrounding  leafage,  or  is  dark  in  tke 
skadows  of  tke  bank,  and  again  is  freaked  witk  wkite 
wkere  tke  ligkt  catckes  its  motion.  Higk  above  it  on 
tke  left  tke  bank  rises  ^eep,  out  of  tke  pidlure,  as 
tkougk  tke  brook  kad  kere  cut  for  itself  a  gorge,  tke 
rugged  declivity  marked  by  verdure  wkerever  vege* 
tation  kas  been  able  to  gain  bold.  From  a  point  on  tke 
slope  an  old  tree  of  double  trunk  kas  been  partly  dis? 
lodged  but  ^ill  cUngs  tenaciously  to  its  rooting,  its 
crooked  trunks  and  branckes  projedling  across  tke 
ckasm  and  skooting  up  ^ruggling  foliage  toward  tke 
ligkt.  Woods  and  busk  are  dense  on  tke  rigkt,  in 
many  tones  of  green,  in  tke  middleground  and  dis? 
tance,  and  on  tkis  side  tke  land  slopes  to  a  low,  flat  and 
^ony  foreground  clearing,  wkere  yellowisk?green 
and  rick,  fuU^green  kerbage  flouriskes  amid  smootk 
gray  ^ones  and  covers  tke  eartk  about  tkem. 

Signed  at  the  lower  right,  H.  D.  Martin,  1894. 
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NORMANDY  TREES 

Height,  28  inches;  width,  36  inches 

A  glimpse  of  tKe  blue  and  wKite  of  a  summer  sky, 
between  two  groups  of  great  trees,  one  in  tbe  imme? 
diate  foreground,  at  the  left,  and  tbe  otber,  at  tbe 
rigbt,  beginning  in  tbe  middle  di^ance  and  extending 
balfway  down  to  tbe  borizon.  In  tbe  rigbt  foreground 
a  bit  of  water  mirroring  tbe  sbadows  and  tbe  bgbt. 
Tbe  foliage  is  full  of  warm  toucbes  of  yellow,  brown 
and  green,  barmonizing  deligbtfully  witb  tbe  coloring 
of  tbe  sky. 

Signed  at  the  right,  H.  D.  Martin. 
William  T.  Evans  Collection,  1900. 


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